A Bowling Green man accused of killing his housemate with a hammer has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence.

David Limbocker, 32, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Warren Circuit Court on the charges. He is in Warren County Regional Jail under a $500,000 cash bond set by Warren Circuit Judge Steve Wilson.

Limbocker was arrested early Dec. 21 by the Bowling Green Police Department after officers responded the night before to 176 Pembroke Court, where investigators found Rachel Martin, 52, dead on her bedroom floor with apparent blunt force trauma to her head.

Blood was found on the walls and carpet of the room, and a hammer with blood on it was located under the bed in Martin’s room, according to court records.

Police located Limbocker in his bedroom in the basement of the house and interviewed him.

“Limbocker advised … that he came home from work, he saw the hammer in the basement, he walked around the house holding the hammer several times, then he went into (Martin’s) bedroom where he hit her multiple times with the hammer,” BGPD Detective Jared Merriss wrote Dec. 21 in an affidavit for a search warrant.

At a preliminary hearing in December in Warren District Court, Merriss described the address as a residential care home where Limbocker and Martin had lived for about 10 years with caretakers.

Limbocker told police he went downstairs after the attack, hid his clothes in a hole in the wall of the basement and took a shower, court records show. Limbocker also told investigators he hid the hammer under Martin’s bed, court records show.

A caretaker at the residence told police Limbocker had claimed to have gone for a run earlier on Dec. 20, a statement that the caretaker found unusual because Limbocker was not known to go running frequently, Merriss testified in December.

After securing a search warrant, police seized a hammer, several items of clothing, two cellphones, binders with information about Limbocker and Martin and swabs of apparent bloodstains located throughout the residence, records show.

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